Monday, January 6th 2025
NVIDIA 2025 International CES Keynote: Liveblog
NVIDIA kicks off the 2025 International CES with a bang. The company is expected to debut its new GeForce "Blackwell" RTX 5000 generation of gaming graphics cards. It is also expected to launch new technology, such as neural rendering, and DLSS 4. The company is also expected to highlight a new piece of silicon for Windows on Arm laptops, showcase the next in its Drive PX FSD hardware, and probably even talk about its next-generation "Blackwell Ultra" AI GPU, and if we're lucky, even namedrop "Rubin." Join us, as we liveblog CEO Jensen Huang's keynote address.
02:22 UTC: The show is finally underway!
02:35 UTC: CTA president Gary Shaprio kicks off the show, introduces Jensen Huang.
02:46 UTC: "Tokens are the building blocks of AI"
02:46 UTC: "Do you like my jacket?"
02:47 UTC: NVIDIA recounts progress all the way till NV1 and UDA.
02:48 UTC: "CUDA was difficult to explain, it took 6 years to get the industry to like it"
02:50 UTC: "AI is coming home to GeForce". NVIDIA teases neural material and neural rendering. Rendered on "Blackwell"
02:55 UTC: Every single pixel is ray traced, thanks to AI rendering.
02:55 UTC: Here it is, the GeForce RTX 5090.
03:20 UTC: At least someone is pushing the limits for GPUs.
03:22 UTC: Incredible board design.
03:22 UTC: RTX 5070 matches RTX 4090 at $550.
03:24 UTC: Here's the lineup, available from January.
03:24 UTC: RTX 5070 Laptop starts at $1299.
03:24 UTC: "The future of computer graphics is neural rendering"
03:25 UTC: Laptops powered by RTX Blackwell: staring prices:
03:26 UTC: AI has come back to power GeForce.
03:28 UTC: Supposedly the Grace Blackwell NVLink72.
03:28 UTC: 1.4 ExaFLOPS.
03:32 UTC: NVIDIA very sneakily teased a Windows AI PC chip.
03:35 UTC: NVIDIA is teaching generative AI basic physics. NVIDIA Cosmos, a world foundation model.
03:41 UTC: NVIDIA Cosmos is trained on 20 million hours of video.
03:43 UTC: Cosmos is open-licensed on GitHub.
03:52 UTC: NVIDIA onboards Toyota for its next generation EV for full-self driving.
03:53 UTC: NVIDIA unveils Thor Blackwell robotics processor.
03:53 UTC: Thor is 20x the processing capability of Orin.
03:54 UTC: CUDA is now a functional safe computer thanks to its automobile certifications.
04:01 UTC: NVIDIA brought a dozen humanoid robots to the stage.
04:07 UTC: Project DIGITS, is a shrunk down AI supercomputer.
04:08 UTC: NVIDIA GB110 "Grace-Blackwell" chip powers DIGITS.
02:46 UTC: "Do you like my jacket?"
03:35 UTC: NVIDIA is teaching generative AI basic physics. NVIDIA Cosmos, a world foundation model.
03:43 UTC: Cosmos is open-licensed on GitHub.
03:52 UTC: NVIDIA onboards Toyota for its next generation EV for full-self driving.
03:53 UTC: NVIDIA unveils Thor Blackwell robotics processor.
03:54 UTC: CUDA is now a functional safe computer thanks to its automobile certifications.
04:07 UTC: Project DIGITS, is a shrunk down AI supercomputer.
435 Comments on NVIDIA 2025 International CES Keynote: Liveblog
It is there, just need to dig to actually get it.
That's why we don't see major improvements in the pure performance itself. Their main selling point is GB100 for the enterprise, then whatever is left is put into Geforce. Add some new DLSS features on top and claim that 5070 is 2X as fast as 4090.
I mean since everybody is first to compare with AMD, they have done the same but with a different focus. It's AI MAX Plus Pro Ryzen for them and compete with Apple. They for now have given up on nvidia.
Just noticed the CP2077 shows 2X improvement for the 5080 and once you subtract the 90-95% from the extra interpolated frames there's almost nothing left lol.
I mean AMD only needs to beat the 5070 at a decent price shouldn't be hard but my guess is it's $499 and about the same with worse RT, but more vram so basically nothing has changed other than the 70 class getting slightly cheaper or the same price I should say the vanilla 4070 is 550 already I believe.
I mean but 5070 is ballpark 4070ti with a price cut, 5070ti is 4080 ball park with a price cut, and the 5080 is 10-15% slower than the 4090 at the same price as the super.... Is my guess. That is pretty much a minimal effort lineup but Nvidia smartly leaked stupid pricing and now they all look pretty good.They charged $500 for a N5 200mm GCD with 4 N6 MCD..... That was supposed to bring cost down... Allegedly this is N4 monolithic. So it costing more to product is a possibility. I can't keep track of wafer cost at TSMC but last I checked they were not getting cheaper.
They know how it performs though and didn't show jack even $499 might be too high now if it just performs like a 5070..... Either way a major gpu launch that people are excited about and they don't have time even though the press was briefed on the cards..... Is weird...
To be honest AMD should be happy, Nvidia has mostly focused on software part. By that I mean they didn't improved raw performance by much. It's not like 5080 suddenly has 17000 cuda cores and is a MCM design with 24GB of VRAM and costs 899.
AMD is more than capable in hardware as being shown in their Instinct GPUs.
They will go the same route as Nvidia with UDNA. So make a buck on Instinct cards for data centers and whatever is left is put on APUs and Radeons with one arch being UDNA.
Just needs more time as their main focus is ROCm so that it can actually compete with CUDA.